Trailer: everyone already hates the American Skins remake

The internet is a cruel mistress, as the producers of the US Skins discovered when they released a sneak peek at the American adaptation of the cult UK teen drama.

The internet is a cruel mistress, as the producers of the US Skins discovered when they released a sneak peek at the American adaptation of the cult UK teen drama.

The teaser trailer indicates the first episode of the American series is pretty much a shot-for-shot remake of the first episode of the British series: complete with the same scantily clad adolescent bodies, same alcohol- and drug-fuelled parties, same notorious scene of a car driving into a canal.

But producer Bryan Elsley — who co-created the British Skins — took to Twitter to defend the American remake, conceding that "Skins USA will start similar" to Skins UK but get "VERY DIFFERENT".

"We are about USA writers and USA stories. Most young people here have never seen Skins. It's for them really. Eventually it will be all new," he wrote. "Try it maybe?"

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